The 20 best universities in the world, according to US News & World Report

#20 — Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)

#19 — University of California, San Diego (San Diego, California)

#18 — Imperial College London (United Kingdom)

#17 — University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

#16 — University of Toronto (Canada)

#14 (tie) —Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)

#14 (tie) — University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

#13 — Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)

#12 — Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)

#11 — University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)

#10 — University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)

#9 — Columbia University (New York, New York)

#8 — University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California)

#7 — California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)

#6 — University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

#5 — University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

#4 — Stanford University (Stanford, California)

#3 — University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California)

#2 — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

#1 — Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)